https://jesper.sikanda.be/posts/1001-syntax-representations.html A better blog post on bindings forms in agda than i could write

2021-03

kiselyov lambda to SKI semantically http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/ski.pdf

http://math.andrej.com/2012/11/29/how-to-implement-dependent-type-theory-iii/#:~:text=de%20Bruijn%20levels%20are%20positions,the%20top%20of%20the%20stack.

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/119861/semantics-for-de-bruijn-levels

Yes so, Semantic of de bruijn z really is a projection function from a tuple s is a reduction function ignoring They really use polymorphism to achieve what they need here. i + l = n levels plus indices = number of binders. I can be wokring in Fock space for homogenous operators. Simon here shows a homogenous list based semantics.

2020-07

What do we do with binders?

Do Just dumbass names

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2019sp/textbook/interp/subst_lambda.html ordinary stringy substituion done right possibly

<code>data Lambo = Var String | Lam String Lambo | App lambo Lambo

-- nope i fucked this up. lordy
-- You need to alpha rename if x contains s' as a free var
subst (Lam s' b) s x | s == s' = (Lam s' b)
| otherwise = Lam s' (subst b s x)
subst (Var s') s x | s == s' = x
| otherwise = Var s'
subst (App f x) s x = App (subst f s x) (subst f s x)

but then we want to be lazy about substituions.

eval :: Lambo -> Lambo
eval (App f x) = let x' = eval x in
eval (App (Lam s b) x) = eval (subst b s x)
eval (App f x) | reducible f = let f' = eval f in eval f' x -- if we also let x' = eval x  it is cbv
| otherwise = (App f x)
eval x = x</code>


barendregt convention - bound variables are uniquely named. The rapier.

## de Bruijn.

de bruin has some tricky points

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Direct Substitution

Environment passing

Well typed de bruijn. http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/interp.html

Bird and Patterson, Altenkirch and Reus. Look at Eisenberg’s Stitch. and Idris tutorial.

https://plfa.github.io/DeBruijn/

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/richard.bird/online/BirdPaterson99DeBruijn.pdf

Chris mentioned https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/christian.urban/Publications/nom-tech.pdf nominal forms in isabelle. I don’t know what this is

HOAS. Weak HOAS, PHOAS.

Locally nameless. Separate free and bound variables. Conor Mcbride and Charuand paper

Point-free style. Does my point-free guide hold some stuff about binding forms?

Map -style. This one is new to me. Conor Mcbride’s Everybody’s got the be somewhere mentions this. At every lambda, you hold a map of where those variables end up going. This leads to a lot of duplication of structure, but it makes sense. Even de Bruijn indices are a peculiar indirection. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.04085.pdf

I had some notes I was doing for indexful differentiation. Tensor expressions. It was an interesting exercise

Differentiation is syntactic, not semantic. That’s why is sucks so hard in thermo

Differential is a binding form itself. See a comment in Functional Differential geometry and in Plotkin’s talk.

https://github.com/sweirich/challenge/blob/canon/debruijn/debruijn1.md

In locally nameless we don’t have to shift on the term we’re substituting in since the free variables in the term have names.